On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> At both ietf and BBF this past week a frequent topic of conversation >> was how to get more open source involvement in standards orgs... >> >> ... and one counter-thrust of mine has always been to get more >> standards org members involved in open source, because that dialog has >> to go both ways. >> >> I thought I would point at several useful upcoming conferences in the >> hope that perhaps there would be some members of ietf/isoc "out there" >> planning some outreach in this regard. >> >> https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016/ proposals closed I think >> >> https://linux.conf.au/proposals/ CFP due aug 5 >> >> >> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/program-announced-embedded-linux-conference-130000509.html >> >> http://netdevconf.org/1.2/ >> >> That is just the first 4 that came to mind, and they are respectively, >> in america, australia, berlin, and japan. There are approximately 1 >> zillion other conferences in that world that an ietf/isoc/bbf/etc >> member might find interesting, or have something of their org they'd >> like to get in front of a wider audience. > > > Just my 2.0e-2... > > I have direct experience with FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2017/) that is held > every year end of January/beginning of February in Bruxelles. > Personally, I like it, I find it very active (~5000 participants/year) and > refreshing (after a year buzz-wording). Joking I say that it looks almost > like IETF's incubator... :-) (the density of geeks per square meter is > similar :-) The ratio of ietf participants to users and devices on the internet is at an all-time low. The problems are swamping us all. A joint meeting of many of the organizations concerned with the future of the internet could fit into that room. > The call for contribution has been opened just one week ago. > > >> >> >> The best list I know of, is here: >> >> http://lwn.net/Calendar/ >> >> >> -- >> Dave Täht >> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! >> http://blog.cerowrt.org >> > -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org